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The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · December 11, 1879

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 54, No. 24

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Notes of News.

—British India now has 8,215 miles of railroad.

—A Negro exodus from North Carolina to Indiana has commenced.

—Pennsylvania has 10,882 oil wells, producing 50,000 barrels of oil daily.

—The Golos, an influential Russian paper, has been suspended for five months.

—During the last fiscal year, 9,333,353 acres of the public lands have been disposed of.

—The Spanish government has decided to dispatch several small war vessels to Cuba.

—General Butler’s last two gubernatorial canvasses are said to have cost him $275,000.

—The pope’s new paper, which is to appear Jan. 1, is to be printed in 7 different languages.

—Birmingham, Eng., spends $5,000,000 a year in strong drink, and $250,000 for education.

—Statistics show an annual waste in this country of $100,000,000 in property destroyed by fires.

—The money expended in railroads since the invention of the locomotive reaches the vast sum of $15,000,000,000.

—About 200 submarine cables have been laid in different waters all over the world. Six connect this country with Europe.

—The second session of the 46th Congress was formally opened Dec. 1, and listened to the reading of the President’s message.

—The Mennonites are about to establish a mission among the Indians in the Island of Kodjah, 600 miles west of Sitka, Alaska.

—In Central Turkey the Protestant Community has made a gain of twelve per cent, and of 1,000 registered members within the year.

—A party of 12 Carmelite nuns, who had been driven from Guatemala, have established themselves in Riversdale, Yonkers Co., N. Y.

—The Mexican Congress has approved a plan for laying a telegraph cable across the Gulf of Mexico, to connect with the United States.

—The drought has been so severe in the West, that water has been carried by rail a distance of 75 miles east and west of the Mississippi River.

—Baker Pasha, who is practically the appointee of the Beaconsfield government, has gone to Asia Minor, to superintend the promised reforms there.

—In Foggia, a beautiful city of Southern Italy, 20 persons were recently killed by the falling of the two upper floors of a factory in course of construction.

—England will soon be brought in direct connection with its South African colonies, as the submarine cable has been laid between Zanzibar and Natal.

—A cable dispatch announces that the ex-Ameer of Afghanistan has been removed from Cabul under military guard. This is the beginning, probably, of a journey toward the scaffold.

—Hartford Hebrews have been notified that they must close their stores either Saturday or Sunday, as so many regard neither their own nor the Christian Sabbath.—Advance.

—Indignation and consternation prevail in the New York butter market, at the discovery and publication of the fact that over 2,000 packages of oleomargarine are sold daily as dairy butter.

—The official reports show that over 28,000 immigrants from Germany have landed at New York since the first day of January, being 7,000 more than during the corresponding period last year.

—The indebtedness of Archbishop Purcell, whose failure caused so much excitement some months ago, is $4,000,000. At the latest reports, $75,000 of this sum had been raised by the Catholics of this country.

—A huge marble statue 15 feet high, and weighing 1,200 pounds, has been unearthed at Gaza. It is supposed to be the god of the Philistines, or an Assyrian monument commemorative of their invasion of Palestine.

—The contest in Boston between the priests and the liberal Catholics, over the question of patronizing the parochial or public schools, is demonstrating that there are in that church two parties on the school question.

—The civil authorities of Sweden are again becoming intolerant even to persecution toward Baptists and others who maintain, however conscientiously, views not in accord with the rulings of the national church.

—Careful inquiry shows that in the late war between Russia and Turkey, 292 churches, 10 monasteries, and 20 schools were destroyed on the south side of the Balkans. The destruction in other sections was even greater.

—On the 6th of January, the Atlantic and Great Western Railway is to be sold in Akron, Ohio, under foreclosure proceedings. The liabilities are about $70,000,000, and it is expected that the road will sell for about $10,000,000.

—One of the first matters that came before Congress at its present session was the Isthmus-canal project. Senator Burnside has called up the resolution declaring against the occupation of the Isthmus by any foreign company.

—The spirit of intolerance is not dead yet. We learn that the missionaries of the American Board have been obliged to withdraw from Austria. Individuals have been fined for reading the word of God to their neighbors present at family prayer.

—A will written entirely in Chinese characters has been offered for probate in the New York Surrogate’s office. There are wills on record in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, German, and many other languages; but this is the first Chinese will filed there.

—On the 2d of December an attempt was made to assassinate the Czar by blowing up the train on which he was traveling to Moscow. By mistake, his baggage train was blown up instead, and the Czar was unharmed. The affair produced intense excitement in the various European capitals.

—In Nordenskjoeld’s Arctic voyage of 1879, it is said that beans of a West Indian leguminous tree (Entada Gigalobium) were found at the entrance of Hinlopen Strait, that had been brought there by the sea, thus proving, if further proof were wanting, that there is a current extending from the Tropics to the Arctic Circle.

—Another massacre of Protestant missionaries is reported to have taken place in Mexico. It occurred at Toluca, about 50 miles from the City of Mexico, in the Presbyterian Mission. How many were killed is not stated; but one man, after being badly cut, was dragged through the streets and then hung up to a tree, where his body remained all night.

—The annual report of the Children’s Aid Society of New York shows that 3,700 persons, in the past year, were sent to homes in the West. During the past 26 years, 50,000 persons have been provided with homes. In that period 200,000 boys and girls have been sheltered and instructed at the lodging houses of the society. The expenses of the past year were $204,000, and receipts $205,000.

—A sale by William H. Vanderbilt to the Wabash Syndicate of 250,000 shares of New York Central stock was consummated on the 26th of November. Of this amount 150,000 shares are sold outright, and an option is given for the remainder. At the price agreed upon, the sale amounts to $30,000,000. A large part of the stock will probably be placed in London and other foreign markets.

—Dime novels bear their proper fruit even in so cold a climate as Canada. Recently at London, Ont., ten young boys were discovered in a plot to buy a schooner and turn pirates on the lakes. They had purchased revolvers and were collecting weapons of warfare. The money for this outfit, $180, one of the boys stole from a relative. The oldest boy was 12 years of age. All engaged declared they got their idea of the plot from reading “Jack Harkaway,” and other kindred stories.